In this course, you are going to learn how writing and the writing process helps you to rethink things that people take for granted or what I called ‘the Everyday’—things that people take for granted.  We are going to do that through completing three collaborative projects: Article Critique (Project 1), Research Report (Project 2), and How-to Visual (Project 3). These three projects will address a semester-long writing theme “Multilingual Students and   (Re-)naming which is based a common social phenomenon among multilingual students who often use another name when studying in the US.

At the end of the course, students will:

a) learn to reserve judgement and remain open to the process of exploration and discovery through the composition process.

b)  learn how to ask good research question and answer it by framing provide evidence from primary source (E.g lived experience, interview) and secondary sources (E.g. quotation, paraphrase, summary, and synthesis).

c) Students will learn how to navigate across different writing processes and use them effectively to rethink and support their arguments.

d) learn how to work collaboratively to improve their own and peer writing.

e) be able to articulate and reflect on the process they go through in developing both print and digital arguments.

f) Understand the (re-)naming issues faced by multilingual students when studying abroad.